Written by | Reginald Rose |
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Place premiered | The juror's room |
Original language | English |
Subject | A courthouse drama: a boy's life at stake in the hands of the jury |
Genre | Drama |
Setting | 1954, late summer in a court jury room, New York City, New York |
Twelve Angry Men is a play by Reginald Rose adapted from his 1954 teleplay of the same title for the CBS Studio One anthology television series. Staged first in San Francisco in 1955, the Broadway debut came 50 years after CBS aired the play, on October 28, 2004, by the Roundabout Theatre Company at the American Airlines Theatre, where it ran for 328 performances.